Things to Keep in Mind When Searching for Voice Over & Video Talent

VOICE OVER & VIDEO TALENT THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN SEARCHING FOR Hiring talent to appear In your videos or do volce overs for your explainer videos or commerclals can be a daunting task. After all, you're looking for someone to be the face or volce of your company and represent you In front of all your potentlal customers, possibly for years to come! How will you know who's right for the Job? Here's what you should know before you hire your volce over or vldeo talent: THEY'RE NOT MIND READERS Your video or volce over talent may be a highly skilled professional but they can't be expected to know exactly what you have In mind without you telling them. Decide what you want your final product to look, sound, and feel like before you start hunting for your volce over or video artist. A few questions to ask yourself Include: • Do you want your video presenter to film in a specific location or be wearing a certaln type of outfit? • Does your volce over speaker need to have a particular accent? • Is there anything you want highlighted or emphasized? THEY SHOULD HAVE REFERENCES Make sure your talent has what It takes to deliver the final product you've envisioned, you should be able check clips and references before you hire someone. Skilled presenters will be happy to show off thelr best work. Even Inexperienced talent should at least have sample clips to show you THEY CAN'T WORK FOR FREE while most talent will charge an hourly rate or project fee, certaln "extras" may not be Included. These extras may Include things like: • Retakes for things that aren't the talent's fault, such as last-minute script changes • Special locations or outfits • Scriptwriting THEY NEED TO REPRESENT YOUR CUSTOMERS when your customers or potentlal customers watch your videos they want to see people they can Identify with. That means your video talent should LOOK, SOUND, DRESS, AND ACT like your Ideal customer - or, depending on your business or product, like your customer base wants to look, sound, dress, and act